ASIA 241 SOURCES OF ASIAN TRADITION (SOCIOLOGY 241X)) The civilizational dynamics that prompt action, including the roles of culture, custom, religion, and historical legacies. The civilizations of China, Japan, and India. Effects of modernization and Western influence on traditional societies. Three semester hours. ASIA 245X COMPARATIVE POLITICS OF ASIA (IE) (POLITICAL SCIENCE 245) Political, economic, and societal dimensions of Japan, China, the Koreas, and India, including security issues in the region and the foreign economic policies of each country. This course satisfies the International Exploration requirement. Three semester hours. ASIA 346 ADVANCED POLITICAL SYSTEMS OF ASIA Political systems of Japan, China, the Koreas, and India. Evolution of political institutions, pluralistic pressures on policy, the nature of the state, the literature on political regimes, and recent attempts at reform and change. Three semester hours. ASIA 349 ASIAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Great issues of Asian political and social thought with focus on China, India, and Japan. Political equality and the social order, power and authority, the nature of the state and problems of legitimacy, group consciousness and the role of the individual, communal and individual rights, and conceptions of justice and moral order. Incorporation of selected readings from Western thought for comparison and contrast. Three semester hours. ASIA 460 INDEPENDENT STUDY Advanced research in a specific area of Asian studies. Prerequisites: junior or senior status and permission of the Director of International and Area Studies. Three semester hours. ASIA 470 AND 471 INTERNSHIP I AND II Work experience related to the student’s major, jointly supervised by the instructor and agency personnel. Although the usual internship will carry either three or six hours credit, a student may elect to arrange an internship carrying between two and six hours credit with the permission of the department. Each hour of credit will require forty hours at the internship site. Prerequisite: junior or senior status. Two to six semester hours. Pass-Fail only. ASIA 490 AND 491 HONORS THESIS I AND II Independent research in a special topic for honors. Prerequisites: senior status, GPA of 3.5 in the major and 3.3 overall, and permission of the Director of International and Area Studies. Three semester hours.
• EUROPEAN STUDIES COURSES EUST 201X RELIGIOUS INDIVIDUALS WHO CHANGED HISTORY (RELIGION 201) The lives, times, and influences of religious people who have become agents of social change. Attention to changes in culture, economics, and value systems. Three semester hours. EUST 235X COMPARATIVE POLITICS IN WESTERN EUROPE (IE) (POLITICAL SCIENCE 235) Interaction of history, culture, economy, society, and international environment in shaping contemporary European political systems at the national, regional, and global level. This course satisfies the International Exploration requirement. Three semester hours. EUST 240X HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (ER) (POLITICAL SCIENCE 240) Major works from the history of political philosophy with emphasis on the development of major ideas in political philosophy, debates between major thinkers, and the relevance of great works of political philosophy to human selfunderstanding and major political issues of our time. Three semester hours. EUST 247X THEORIES OF JURISPRUDENCE AND CONTEMPORARY LEGAL ISSUES (POLITICAL SCIENCE 247) Systematic treatment of the relation between human law and higher law in the secular (natural law) or sacral (revelation) context. Presuppositions of various schools of thought as they bear on enduring human problems grouped under six major themes of legal theory: legal rights of the individual; equality before the law; control of
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